So as many of you know, Taxi is one of my favorite films — it’s a fantastic French action comedy about a superfast driving Taxi driver who ends up working for the Marseille police when he gets busted by a bumbling cop who enlists him to stop the German Mercedes gang bank robbery gang invading Marseille.
It’s been remade for an American audience and will be released this October. I’ve just watched the trailer for the remake and there are some things in it that are taken directly from the original. It might be funny, or it might be lame. I still think I prefer FrŽdŽric Diefenthal to Jimmy Fallon in the role of the clumsy cop, and Samy Naceri to Queen Latifah in the role of the taxi driver, but she might pull it off.
Marseille has been replaced with New York City, and the German Mercedes gang has been replaced by a knockout female foursome as you’ll see in the trailer.
